Domestic tourism continues to lead the way, with HCM City remaining the top destination for local travel in 2022, according to a study, ‘Summer Travel Trends,’ released by online digital travel platform Agoda.
Seven years after his TV series Đường Lên Điện Biên (Road to Điện Biên), director Bùi Tuấn Dũng is back in action with the 10-episode work Bình Minh Phía Trước (Dawn ahead) about late Party General Secretary Nguyễn Văn Cừ. The series was screened on VTV1 every weekday from July 6 to celebrate the revolutionary's 110th birthday.
Kylin and dragon dances will be performed starting in July in HCM City’s District 5 twice a month to serve domestic and foreign visitors, according to the District 5 People’s Committee.
Enjoying a cup of hot tea and reading the morning paper inside a spacious house, Võ Thành Minh, a retired officer living in Alley No. 127 on Cô Giang Street in HCM City’s Phú Nhuận District, said he now has a comfortable life thanks to a better income from his three kiosks for lease on the alley that was expanded three years ago.
HCM City authorities are calling on the health sector and each individual to take all the precautions needed to tackle the dengue fever virus amid a spike in new infections in the largest city.
Chairman of HCM City People's Committee Phan Văn Mãi said that the participation of the city’s entire political system at all levels is important to speed up site clearance and ensure that construction of Ring Road No.3 restarts in June 2023 as scheduled after prolonged delays.
A dozen patients suffering from osteomyelitis (bone infection) in the skull, jaw and face with unknown causes have been reported at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City in the past two months.
HCM City is facing three major medical problems, its top healthcare official has said: having to ward off COVID and dengue fever simultaneously, shortage of medicines and equipment and shortage of public medical staff.
Miss Grand International 2021, Nguyễn Thúc Thùy Tiên, is planning to travel to Angola in mid-July to launch the project to provide fresh water to local people.
The HCM City’s People Committee held a conference on July 2 with the participation of leaders from Đồng Nai, Bình Dương and Long An to discuss about the construction plan of the Ring Belt Road No.3 in HCM City.
Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam ordered relevant agencies to clarify why many southern provinces transfer patients to HCM City to treat dengue fever on Thursday morning.
The progress of the North-South Expressway is facing difficulties, especially in four specific component projects that must be completed by December 31, due to unusual weather factors and price hikes in fuel and input materials.
The Trần Hữu Trang Cải Lương Theatre is offering a summer programme featuring cải lương (reformed opera) targeting primary and secondary students in HCM City and Thủ Đức City.
HCM City is seeking to have at least 124 products meet the standards of One Commune-One Product (OCOP) programmes with three-star and above ratings by 2025.
Việt Nam's southern region has recorded more than 39,300 dengue fever cases so far this year, including 36 deaths, 20 of which were children aged 15 and under.
Chairman of HCM City People's Committee and head of the city's National Assembly Delegation Phan Văn Mãi told Vietnam News Agency about the city's Ring Road No3 project discussed at the parliament during the ongoing plenary session.